Posts on Picturing Jordan

Don't WhatsApp and Drive

Thu, 15 Sep 2016 14:10:48 +0300

Billboard in Amman cautions against using your phone while driving

I can’t even read Arabic but I’m pretty sure that billboard is telling people to put their fucking phones down while driving. It’s like an epidemic here. I’ve never seen people look less at the road while driving than here in Amman.

Eid Mubarak in Your Neighborhood Dumpster

Wed, 14 Sep 2016 09:36:00 +0300

Sheep carcass lazily discarded in neighborhood dumpster

As Muslims around the world are busy wishing each other a blessed Eid al-Adha, some poor bastard has to clean up this lazily discarded sheep carcass from my local dumpster (note the entrails spilled below). Keep it classy, Jordan.

No Noise Near the Noisy Mosque

Wed, 07 Sep 2016 19:32:36 +0300

Sign forbidding sound near mosque on Rainbow Street, Amman

The irony is rich with this one, because this mosque has a sound system from another planet. If I wasn’t worried about my personal safety I’d put up a sign right next to it saying: Please mute your mosque, there is a sleeping Alan 50m away.